TWRP is an open source, community project. TWRP development is done by roughly 4 people at this point. TWRP also have a large support community with many people who are willing to answer questions and help people with their devices either through our IRC channel or on forums like xda-developers.

TeamWin was originally formed to work on porting WiMAX to CM7 for the HTC EVO 4G. After their work on the EVO 4G they wanted to work on a project that would work on more devices than just the EVO 4G and they settled on working on a recovery. Today TWRP is the leading custom recovery for Android phones.

DISCLAIMER : TeamWin team and myself will never ever be responsible for any damage you do to your device !

Connect your USB cable and press 'VOL. UP' button to confirm that you want to enter into DL mode.

Start Odin, uncheck "F. Reset Time", and then click 'AP' button.

Select my 'recovery.tar.md5' file that you previously extracted from my 7zip archive and press 'Start' button. The phone will reboot when finished.

When the phone begins to vibrate just before rebooting : IMMEDIATELY press and hold 'VOL. UP' + 'HOME' buttons to boot straightly into your new recovery. <= THIS LAST STEP IS NEEDED ONLY ON SOME S4 MINI DEVICES TO ACHIEVE THE FLASHING PROCESS SUCCESSFULLY.

DOWNLOADS :

=> STABLE branch : (NEW) 1 version per device built for stability, full crypto. support for both EXT4 and F2FS (fixed with @arco68 help, thanks !)... EXT4+F2FS; built along with LOS's NOUGAT ROM tree !

INFO : STABLE branch DOWNLOADS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FROM THE DOWNLOADS TAB OF THIS PROJECT.

NOTE : i've started building it for myself, now i'm sharing it ! Feel free to report back... Any feedback will ever be greatly appreciated !

NOTE : if you are interested in my work and download my files, please report back AND hit my 'THANKS!' button if you think i deserve it ! Thank you !

PS : TWRP for S4 mini is available as three separate download categories : STABLE, DEV & TRYOUTS ! The DEV branch is based off the stable one and is including features that are not available in the STABLE one yet (as upstream not merged commits...) ! So the DEV branch is as stable as the STABLE one except for currently previewed features...

Language translation - It wonâ€™t be perfect and especially some languages that require large font files like Chinese & Japanese wonâ€™t be availble on most devices. Also some languages may only be partially translated at this time. Feel free to submit more translations to OmniROMâ€™s Gerrit. (mostly by Dees_Troy)

Flashing of sparse images - On select devices you will be able to flash some parts of factory images via the TWRP GUI (by HashBang173)

Adopted storage support for select devices - TWRP can now decrypt adopted storage partitions from Marshmallow

Reworked graphics to bring us more up to date with AOSP - includes support for adf and drm graphics (by Dees_Troy)

SuperSU prompt will no longer display if a Marshmallow ROM is installed

Update exfat, exfat fuse, dosfstools (by mdmower)

Update AOSP base to 6.0

A huge laundry list of other minor fixes and tweaks

v3.0.1

support new CM 13.0 pattern encryption (sultanqasim)

fix slow flashing issue due to modprobe (present on only some devices) (#twrp)

libtar updated to latest upstream and fixes (jcadduono)

fixes for loading custom themes (_that)

TWRP will now detect and install TWRP themes automatically through the normal zip install process (Dees_Troy)

Fix a bug with the input box that affected masked inputs (passwords). This fixes decrypt of full device encryption on devices that support decrypt. This bug also impacts encrypted backups. Users are highly encouraged to stop using 3.0.1 if you use encrypted backups or if you need decrypt of data in TWRP.

Add Greek translation to some builds.

v3.0.3

N/A

v3.1.0

vold decrypt on a few select HTC devices, TWRP will now attempt to use the system partition's vold and vdc binaries and libraries to decrypt the data partition (nkk71 and CaptainThrowback)

adb backup to stream a backup directly to or from your PC, see documentation here (bigbiff)

tweak MTP startup routines (mdmower)

support new Android 7.x xattrs for backup and restore to fix loss of data after a restore (Dees_Troy)

support POSIX file capabilities backup and restore to fix VoLTE on HTC devices and possibly other issues (Dees_Troy)

better indicate to users that internal storage is not backed up (Dees_Troy)

improve automatic determination of TW_THEME (mdmower)

minimal getcap and setcap support (_that)

try mounting both ext4 and f2fs during decrypt (jcadduono and Dees_Troy)

shut off backlight with power key (mdmower)

timeout during FDE decrypt (Dees_Troy and nkk71)

support for FBE decrypt and backing up and restoring FBE policies (Dees_Troy)

I don't think I understand the difference between this one and the other 2.6.x one we current have. The other works fine with kitkat?

Here is the TWRP 2.7.0.0 changelog as it is published on official TeamWin website

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What's new in 2.7.0.0:

Faster graphics rendering by disabling alpha blending on fully opaque objects thanks to Tassadar
Allow sideloading from /tmp on encrypted devices
Check for a crypto footer before asking for a password to prevent user confusion
Additional checks for validity to auto generated backup names
Text wrap in the console output
Proper caps lock support in the keyboard
Mouse support via USB OTG for devices with a broken digitizer
Improve scanning of storage locations for OpenRecoveryScript
Haptic feedback for buttons, keyboard, and vibration at the end of longer running actions
Fixed ext4 wiping when no selinux contexts are defined for that partition (e.g. sd-ext)
Update SuperSU to 1.93 and improve installation process
Added selinux contexts restoration to fix permissions
Load RTC offset on Qualcomm devices to fix the date/time in recovery
USB Mass Storage fixes Add SELinux support checking
Add Disk Usage class to better handle excluded folders (e.g. Google Music cache)
Add 4.4 AOSP*decrypt support
Add some toolbox utilities to TWRP (namely to support SELinux functions not supported in busybox)
Various SELinux fixes and bug fixes

Note:*2.7 marks the first time that we are dropping support for older devices. We are doing this because of the SELinux support needed to install 4.4 Kit Kat ROMs. The non-TWRP*parts of the recovery image have to be built in at least a 4.1 tree and the kernel that is included in the recovery image has to support writing SELinux contexts. We don't own most of the devices that we support so we depend on outside testers and developers to help us update devices. In many cases we can't find someone readily. Come to #twrp on Freenode if you want to help bring your device up to date. You can tell right away if your device will support 4.4 ROMs in 2.7. Boot TWRP*and press the console button (the square-ish button either in the bottom middle or upper right) to view the console output. If it doesn't say "Full SELinux support" in the console, then your device still needs some work. Help us help you.

So to answer your question : yes, 2.6.3.0 can work with KitKat but 2.7.0.0 is a new major update to TWRP

Hey, combined downloads count of .tar.md5 and flashable .zip versions has already reached 50 ! Thank you for downloading my files Does anybody have any additional feedback ? Have you tried flashing pre-KK ROMs with it ? If so, was it successfull ?

Thank you for reporting back

BTW TWRP 2.7.0.1 will be out soon upstream... i will update downloads links in consequence

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